Chapter 244 Special effects strategy
When Wang Meng came to the newly established Dream Recovery Special Effects Company, everyone was still busy when Wang Meng came in.
Today's movies use special effects more and more.
In film and television, artificially created illusions and illusions are called film and television special effects.
Filmmakers use them to avoid putting actors in danger, reduce the cost of making movies, or make simpler reasons, just use them to make movies more exciting.
Due to Wang Meng's investment in Dream Recovery Special Effects and the accumulation of previous technology, the Dream Recovery Special Effects can now complete a lot of special effects processing.
The only shortcoming is modeling, but our Chinese are not stupid, they have never been exposed to it. As long as you give them a certain amount of resources, there will always be talents who stand out.
Gu Gaoyi is such a talent. This person is a bit legendary. When he was a child, he liked to tinker with some puppet clay figures. When he was in his twenties, he saw the special effects produced by modeling from Hollywood movies.
He was simply ecstatic at that time, but inquired from many sources that there was no such company in China at that time, so Gu Gaoyi went to Hollywood for his ideals.
The beginning of the period was very miserable, and I worked hard to fill my stomach in the past two years.
Until one chance, he luckily joined the digital field special effects company and started learning step by step. It took nearly ten years for Gu Gaoyi to become a top modeler in the digital field.
Not only that, this person has a lot of knowledge about green cloth cushion, dunks, etc., but his best skills are modeling.
Gu Gaoyi had also thought about returning to China and passing on the skills he had learned to domestic special effects companies, but he was disappointed. Many mainland film and television companies and even directors were not interested in what he said at all, and they were outrageous and didn't know what he was for.
By chance, Ji Fei found out about this person. At first, Gu Gaoyi didn't care, thinking that he was another person who didn't know how to do it.
Until the two talked about their opinions, Gu Gaoyi discovered that there were really people in China who were interested in special effects. Jifei was not good at picturing or dunking in green cloth, but he didn't know much about modeling.
After reporting to Wang Meng, Wang Meng attached great importance to it and called Gu Gaoyi many times to return to China. He invested in establishing a top domestic special effects company.
At first, Gu Gaoyi didn't care. He knew that special effects were a lot of money, especially modeling.
However, as he learned about Wang Meng, he found that this person was not only a genius director, but also a money-making expert, and his value appreciated quickly.
But these still didn't impress Gu Gaoyi. Gu Gaoyi knew that even if you were rich, it would be useless if you didn't really understand modeling or special effects. Besides, it would be useless if you understood it.
Can you still shoot special effects blockbusters?
However, Wang Meng's two plans were spoken out completely to Gu Gaoyi.
Wang Mengna came out of Transformers and Jurassic Park and told him that the modeling of these two movies or dunking green cloth in the future will be yours as long as you agree.
In this way, Gu Gaoyi, who was deeply shocked, quit his job in the digital field and returned to China.
Hutchison took the lead in establishing dream-realization special effects.
Talent is talent. With the support of Wang Meng's funds, the two of them led a group of troops to form a simple team in less than three months.
Wang Meng's promise was fulfilled, and the first work to conquer was painting skin.
Coming to the Dream Recovery Special Effect, Ji Fei and Gu Gaoyi are making a silicone that looks like human skin.
If you have seen the painted skin, you will know that this is the layer of human skin in the painted skin.
The original director spent nearly a million dollars to get this skin in his previous life. With the special effects company in his previous life, it is said that the previous life version gave tens of millions to the special effects company in his previous life.
The domestic technology is very powerful in this life, and the talent is not behind. In addition, Wang Meng's advance layout is enough. As long as you are careful, you don't need to spend a lot of money to buy from Hollywood. You can make your own dream-realizing special effects.
Moreover, in order to make a big animated movie, Wang Meng spent a lot of money to buy a supercomputer that was retired by the country.
Although it is retired, its computing capabilities are of a high value in China, not to mention that it is working for special effects. At present, there are not even top special effects companies in the world.
This supercomputer is the favorite of Ji Fei and Gu Gaoyi. I like it so much. The computing ability is simply a very different from that of ordinary computers.
"How are you doing?" Seeing that everyone was busy and no one noticed themselves, Wang Meng leaned over and asked.
A group of people were carefully looking around the workbench to make skins and animal models.
"Don't make a noise, Director Wang is here." Ji Fei turned his head and shouted, but found out that it was Wang Meng.
"Director Wang."
"Director Wang, you won't say anything when you come."
"Don't worry about me, you guys are busy with yours, I'm here to take a look."
Wang Meng saw that everyone wanted to put down their work and greet him, so he hurriedly stopped him. This group of people is good employees, and it is useless to make unnecessary politeness.
"Director Wang, don't worry, there is not much problem. I have worked such a simple model in Hollywood many times before. The reason why it is so slow now is that our industrial chain is incomplete. There are very few equipment and materials used in China, and some of them are not all set from the United States. Now, it is being deployed for less than a month. The models, dunks, green cloths, etc. used for painting skins will be prepared, which will not delay your plan." Gu Gaoyi explained to Wang Meng.
"Well, that's good. I'm here to see what you are preparing. The shots of real-life scenes can be completed in at most three months, but the studio takes nearly two months. Because there are many special effects plots, it cannot be delayed." Wang Meng explained.
Due to the adaptation of the plot and the large number of special effects, this time the shooting was only spent nearly two months in the studio, which shows how much Wang Meng invested in special effects.
"Haha, Director Wang is to tell you, I was really nervous at the beginning, but you made that supercomputer too powerful. When I was in the digital field, I didn't have such a good device. Don't worry if I have such a good device. With such a good device, if I can't complete the task, I, Gu, will have been in vain for years." Gu Gaoyi patted his chest and said.
"Yes, Director Wang, with this supercomputer, no matter the painted green cloth cushion and dunk, or the post-production, it will save a lot of events. Even our animation movie, it will save a lot of trouble with it, and its processing ability is too great." Ji Fei said on the side.
After hearing this, Wang Meng found that the money he spent seemed to be the right one. With this super computer, it would be much easier to save trouble, so it would be worth the worry for a while.
The three of them were talking, and Wang Meng's phone rang. It turned out that it was Tsui Hark who called.
"Hey, Director Xu, what? You're in the Demon City, why don't you say it in advance?"
Tsui Hark on the phone said that he had arrived in Magic City and was at the headquarters of DreamWorks, which made Wang Meng stunned. He hurriedly asked for a while.
Tsui Hark called for Di Renjie. Wang Meng's moves were too big before, so Tsui Hark was not in a hurry. Now the news is getting smaller and it is almost the New Year, so Tsui Hark is here.
"I'm not at DreamWorks, I'm at DreamWorks Special Effects Company, I'll rush back later."
"What?" Tsui Hark on the phone heard that Wang Meng was dreaming of special effects, and he happened to love the special effects very much. Originally, Wang Meng said he would rush back as soon as possible, but Tsui Hark said there was no need, I'll go to your place to find you.
"You want to come and have a look, okay, I'll wait for you. Let's see you later."
Tsui Hark was very direct. After hanging up the phone, about ten minutes later, Tsui Hark, his agent and an assistant arrived, and a DreamWorks employee was accompanied.
"Director Xu, come and greet me in advance. I'm very prepared. If you spread like this, it will embarrass me." Wang Meng said shyly as she held Tsui Hark's hand.
Tsui Hark is not tall and needs to look up when standing in front of Wang Meng. It looks funny to stand together and shake hands.
"You are too busy, I'm afraid of disturbing you. Besides, if you are prepared, I'm embarrassed. It's better to do this. If you are busy, I'll wait for two days. If you are not busy, I'll come to you. I haven't had much trouble recently." Tsui Hark said.
After saying that, he said, "Director Wang, I'll take you to see your special effects company. I'm very interested in this. How about taking me to see?"
"I'm honored that Director Xu will give me some advice." Wang Meng took Tsui Hark and then recorded Fei to accompany him to introduce him.
Jifei knows everything about the special effects company and is very proud of the current company. Although it is just a grass team, it has real materials. In addition, it is the top in China, so how can you not be proud?
"Director Xu, this is a retired supercomputer that Director Wang has found from the national security department. With it, whether it is special effects processing or green cloth cushioning, it will be faster and more convenient."
"This is a sensing and capture equipment that only many top special effects companies in the United States have, and with it."
"This is, several professional talents we have invited from Hollywood, who are top talents in special effects processing and generation, as well as surveying and mapping."
"This is how we get the latest technology from several major domestic technical institutions. With it, my technology accumulation is no less than that of a large special effects company."
"This is, researchers and students from several domestic special effects companies may be our employees in the future."
With Ji Fei's introduction, Tsui Hark opened his eyes. It seems that Wang Meng is not talking about it, she is indeed doing it, and she is doing it very well.
"I was looking forward to it and admire Director Wang very much. I didn't expect that seeing is true. Director Wang spent much effort on special effects than I expected. It was indeed awesome!!" After hearing Ji Fei's introduction, Tsui Hark said to Wang Meng solemnly.
"A little fight, Director Xu is polite."
"Director Wang is humble. I can still see whether it is good or bad." Tsui Ke
Wang Meng seems modest, but like Ji Fei, he is very proud of his special effects company. How many people in China do this?
None at the moment! That's courage!!
When he came to the workbench for the painting of the skin, Wang Meng took Ji Fei's words and introduced to Tsui Hark: "This is the prop that I need to use for my new film painting of the skin. The cost of this skin is nearly two million, plus these models are nearly three million, which seems to be a lot, but because of the production of it yourself, I have saved a lot of money. If I purchase and customize it from Hollywood, it will be at least tens of millions."
Tsui Hark looked at it very seriously and was very curious about these things. He explained to him both technically.
After watching it for about an hour, Wang Meng and Tsui Hark returned to Dream Factory. After all, Tsui Hark came this time for the Di Renjie series and Dream Special Effects Company, which is not a place to discuss matters.
However, Tsui Hark was in a good mood after watching it, and seemed to be more confident in his cooperation with Wang Meng. At the same time, he became more optimistic about Wang Meng, a young man.
:Thanks to Gemini for withdrawing monthly tickets from book friends, and continue to ask for monthly tickets. Let's take a break tomorrow and have two updates for book friends the day after tomorrow. To be continued.
Chapter completed!